Hennessey Capital

Total investments

5

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.26

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveEnergy StorageSoftwareManufacturingRenewable EnergyPublic TransportationCRMLocation Based ServicesData VisualizationBattery

Summary

Hennessey Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Rochester Hills.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are CRM, Data Visualization. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MapAnything. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. This Hennessey Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Hennessey Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Hennessey Capital, startups are often financed by VentureSouth, Vision Ridge Capital Partners, Upstate Carolina Angel Network. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vision Ridge Capital Partners, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VentureSouth, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Tao Capital Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.26
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (3)
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Public Transportation (3)
  • Automotive (3)
  • Battery (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
317M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.53

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Proterra 08 Jan 2014 Automotive, Energy Storage, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Public Transportation, Battery Late Stage Venture 34M United States, California

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